Sakurai: Next Super Smash Bros. In “First Step Of The Process”

The next entry to the Super Smash Bros. franchise is in development. During a recent interview with Nintendo Power, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has announced that the next game in the series is in “the first step of the development process.”

The next Super Smash Bros., which was first revealed last year, is Sakurai’s first project that was announced before being in development – this means that “players will be forced to wait even longer than they expect to.” The next Super Smash Bros. game will be for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

“We’ve just taken what you could call the first step of the process. This is the first time I’ve ever had my next project announced before it’s even entered development, and because of that, I fear that players will be forced to wait even longer than they expect to. Please be patient.”

What’s the deal? Can’t you just ignore PS All-Stars and just play SSB? I love Brawl, Melee, and the original, but I wouldn’t mind all my favorite Playstation characters duking it out either. Please refrain from being a fanboy, it’s stupid…

Also, PSAS looks like crap. In SSB you hit your opponent, their damage percentage rises, and they fly farther and farther the higher it is. In PSAS, there is no feedback mechanic, all you’re supposed to do is build enough power to use your smash

That’s like saying Tekken copied Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat, and any other one-on-one fighting game. At a glance, these games look the same, but you know what the difference between fighting games are, right? Mechanics. Just like Dolan stated, “In SSB you hit your opponent, their damage percentage rises, and they fly farther and farther the higher it is. In PSAS, there is no feedback mechanic, all you’re supposed to do is build enough power to use your smash”. If 4-player fighting was a genre in itself, we wouldn’t be having this childish conversation of who copied who. I’ll be the one enjoying games across my Wii U, PS3, PC, 3DS, Vita, AND PC while a majority of you will stay here continually bashing Sony and Microsoft…Cheers! (That last comment isn’t directly to you Air, but to the fanboys of this blog.)

Thank you forfeit ther provingmypoint!Of course you can’tcompare Tekken to StrretFighter. They’re completely different games with DIFFERENT MECHANICS.I’m guessing you neverreadmycomment though… Anyways, you can’tcompare PSAll-Starsto SSB. Just like you can’tcompare SFto Tekken.plus, PSAll-Starsisn’t even out yet. Please readmycomments before commenting. :)

Thank you for further proving my point. Of course you can’t compare Tekken to Street Fighter, they’re completely different games, aren’t they? There MECHANICS are vastly DIFFERENT. Just like PS All-Stars and SSB: the mechanics are different. I’m guessing you never read my comment and stopped when I mentioned Tekken and SF. Please read the comments before posting.

I was just trying to get a point across. Stop comparing games when one isn’t even out yet. I’ll be enjoying my PS3, Wii, and PC for now. I’m done commenting, cheers everyone!

DAMN YOU SAKURAI!!!!!!! WHHHHHHHHY?!!! Why? How? Where? When? Who? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO how could you sakurai? *loud wisper* how could you do such a thing all I wanted was to see smash bros on my 3DS Now, now I want to diiiiiiiie.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO please I need it my nintendoNess battery is running low if I don’t play a brand new game soon….I’ll die of penis inflation! I NEED MY PENIS!!! PLEASE DONT FAIL ME!!! Oh god my hairs falling out

What relevance is that to what time a game took to get made? Anyway SSBU will take a bit longer than Melee due to the fact that it’s in HD, and will incorperate 1 or 2 pads as well as the 4 controllers. Plus the connection to the 3DS.

While I think Kid Icarus would be perfect for the Wii U Gamepad, I don’t think that would be because of the second analog stick. The major problem with the 3DS scheme is the fact the system is small and portable.

With the Gamepad the player would have a charging stand at hand to sit it on, whereas a stand wouldn’t be something a player would necessarily bring with them, so designating aiming/camera controls to the touchscreen becomes much less of an obstacle. There’s also more controller for the hand to hold than the 3DS would supply, and combined with allowing the controller to sit on a stand hand cramps would be a much less frequent complaint.

No problem. I can understand he’s pretty upset under the stress. And screw people bitching about no Smash Bros. info at this years E3. Nintendo announced this game a year before it was even in development and Kid Icarus was just released prior to e3. Yeah, I’m sure this guy can finish a SSB game in two months, ungrateful idiot…

yeah dumb ass people expect a trailer this e3 but what people don’t understand is that it just started like 2 months ago. seriously 2 month and people expected a teaser, a trailer, a game play, fool they already got there teaser last e3 why another?

Anyways, back to the world of adults. I agree Holonboy. If Nintendo would have announced a timeframe for the game, or even just mentioned a new character. The presses would have gone crazy! Not to mention all of us here. :D

They surely would have won E3 in my eyes and many others. Funny how SSB has this way of always exciting different kinds of gamers everywhere…

The information: We just started, you have to wait. I doubt this is the kind of info that would stop complaints.

Anyway, good to hear Sakurai get back to us on this. Hopefully this game addresses the criticisms of Brawl, while building on the areas it improved in, and incorporates at least the option of Melee mechanics (via an on/off toggle) so that it can be a game all Smash Bros. players can enjoy.

No slips, please, or at least make it a feature you can toggle on or off.

Nah I was just messing around :) don’t really care that Sony is making their own game, just find it a bit stupid that at the moment, it’s clearly a copy paste (copy paste-ation?) with different characters and a different score system

Criticize a game that hasnt even come out yet and bash it without playing it…

Seems legit.

You guys sound like those Sony/Xbox fanboys that bash the Wii daily. Let’s show those bastards that we aren’t as childish as they are! Honestly, the Nintendo online community is filled with an abundance of great people, but these petty fanboyish comments are making me think twice. Hope I don’t find people like you guys on Miiverse…

The Smash Bros for Wii U was announced back in E3 2011, Playstation all stars was announced around march 2012 I guess, and they announced it for PS3, then in E3 they said that because of “fan demand.” a PS Vita version would be available… so taking that in account, Nintendo had the idea first, though I wouldn´t call it exactly cross-play from Nintendo, more like interactivity, they haven´t exactly specified.